TTRSO TheThirdRace Skill Overhaul

Introduction
What TTRSO is?

TTRSO is a minimalistic and modular skill overhaul aimed at balancing the vanilla skills while maintaining the vanilla feel.

Magic, Combat and Stealth skill trees have been balanced to offer meaningful choices with perks, spells and some mechanics.

If you feel the vanilla Skyrim was doing a good job but was just missing something, this mod is for you.

Overall, the game is gonna be a bit harder since I've fixed a lot of exploits, but it won't be overwhelming nor will prevent you from becoming a legend.

General ideas for the mod
  • Minimalistic approach, stay true to vanilla Skyrim as much as possible
  • Balanced approach that offers more playstyles, overpowered skills were brought back in line while underpowered ones were buffed
  • The Magic, Combat and Stealth skill trees now have 100 perks each
  • Main perks of most skill tree scale according to your skills, no more flat 20% boost
  • Each type of armor (heavy, light and unarmored) have their own bonuses and drawbacks
  • Shouts can play a more important role but you have to invest yourself for that power
  • Unarmed damage has been given a boost
  • All the custom items/spells added by this mod are sold by a new merchant in The Frozen Heart inn (Winterhold)
  • Reset a perk tree whenever you want
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Main Features

Magic

Alteration

Equilibrium is now a "state" where your magicka is your health (akin to blood mages)

Mage Armor spells now give less protection, but you keep your full magicka and stamina regeneration rates intact

Conjuration

Bound weapons have new abilities to make them as powerful as physical weapons

Reanimated bodies and conjured atronach will be more usefull to those dedicated to the art

Destruction Most perks now have a chance to trigger instead of always doing so, making Destruction fun and not boring
Enchanting Staves are now worth using if you're willing to invest some perk
Illusion Build you character around Illusion and be a force to be reckoned with even past level 50
Restoration Wards are now useful against any style of combat
Notes

Main perks from the magic schools now boost magnitude or duration

The master perk of each magic school now also affect dual casting (uniform 2.5x multiplier for cost, duration and magnitude)

It's not possible anymore to cast magic for free

Combat

Archery Bows are now even deadlier than before, especially to the unsuspecting target
Block Blocking is a bit less effective, but offers a bit more offensive
Heavy Armor

Most perks work as long as you wear at least 3 pieces of Heavy Armor

Gives the maximum protection, but comes at the cost of lower magicka and stamina regeneration rates

One-Handed Perks have been streamlined by regrouping weapon types
Smithing

The reorganized tree offers you more choices about which perks you want to invest in

"Infusion" perks allow you to craft equipment just as strong as Daedric and Dragon

Two-Handed Perks have been streamlined by regrouping weapon types

Stealth

Alchemy Reworked to match or surpass the power of existing potions and poisons while keeping balance
Light Armor

Most perks work as long as you wear at least 3 pieces of Light Armor

Give you less protection than Heavy Armor but the lower magicka and stamina regeneration rates are not as bad either

Lockpicking Those not dedicated enough will have a really hard time picking locks
Pickpocket Those not dedicated enough will have a much harder time in their endevour
Sneak

Detection has been improved, light has a greater effect and NPCs will search for you longer

Sneak attack with two-handed weapons

Speach

Shouts have perks to give longer duration, greater magnitude and lower cooldown

Bartering is now more dependant on your speech skills

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In-Depth

Highlighted parts show what changed from vanilla Skyrim. Notes are always new changes so I didn't highlighted them to avoid color oversaturation.

Perks not present anymore in the skill trees have been modified to reflect the perks they have been replaced with. This will allow NPCs to benefit from those perks the same way you do yours.

Alteration

Novice Cast Novice level Alteration spells for half magicka. The duration of all Alteration spells scales with your skills up to 25%
Apprentice Cast Apprentice level Alteration spells for half magicka. The duration of all Alteration spells scales with your skills up to 50%
Adept Cast Adept level Alteration spells for half magicka. The duration of all Alteration spells scales with your skills up to 75%
Expert Cast Expert level Alteration spells for half magicka. The duration of all Alteration spells scales with your skills up to 100%
Master Cast Master level Alteration spells for half magicka. Dual casting Alteration spells requires 15% less magicka and last 15% more time
Dual Casting Dual casting an Alteration spell overcharges the spell, allowing it to last longer
Mage Armor (1) Protection spells like Ironflesh are twice as strong if not wearing armor. This effect also affects unarmed damage
Mage Armor (2) Protection spells like Ironflesh are three times stronger if not wearing armor. This effect also affects unarmed damage
Mage Armor (3) Protection spells like Ironflesh are four times stronger if not wearing armor. This effect also affects unarmed damage
Magic Resistance (1) Blocks 10% of a spell's effects
Magic Resistance (2) Blocks 20% of a spell's effects
Magic Resistance (3) Blocks 30% of a spell's effects
Stability While unarmored and casting a spell, you are protected from all staggering effects
Atronach (1) Absorb 15% of the magicka of any spells that hit you
Atronach (2) Absorb 30% of the magicka of any spells that hit you
Tip the Scale (1) You now get 2 points of magicka for every point of health when in Equilibrium state
Tip the Scale (2) You now get 3 points of magicka for every point of health when in Equilibrium state
Notes

Candlelight automatically turn off while sneaking

Dragon Hide has been changed to a normal Mage Armor type spell with a lower armor rating than the damage cap, but it has now greater duration

Mage Armor type spells now have a fortify unarmed damage of 10% of caster armor rating

With all the appropriate perks , the Dragon Hide spell will give you about 50% damage reduction without casting Ward spells

Conjuration

Novice Cast Novice level Conjuration spells for half magicka. The duration of all Conjuration spells scales with your skills up to 25%
Apprentice Cast Apprentice level Conjuration spells for half magicka. The duration of all Conjuration spells scales with your skills up to 50%
Adept Cast Adept level Conjuration spells for half magicka. The duration of all Conjuration spells scales with your skills up to 75%
Expert Cast Expert level Conjuration spells for half magicka. The duration of all Conjuration spells scales with your skills up to 100%
Master Cast Master level Conjuration spells for half magicka. Dual casting Conjuration spells requires 15% less magicka and last 15% more time
Dual Casting Dual casting a Conjuration spell overcharges the spell, allowing it to last longer
Mystic Binding Bound weapons' damage scale with your skills up to 100%
Soul Stealer (1) Bound weapons cast Soul Trap on targets
Soul Stealer (2) Bound weapons cast Soul Trap on targets and absorb 10 Magicka
Oblivion Binding Bound weapons will banish summoned creatures and turn raised ones
Ethereal Binding Bound weapons gain the ability to phase through enemies, ignoring 15% of the target's armor
Weave Binding Bound weapons deal 5% of caster's current magicka in additional damage
Dark Souls (1) Reanimated undead have 75 points more health
Dark Souls (2) Reanimated undead have 150 points more health
Gravebound Reanimated body do not turn to ashes once released
Twin Souls You can have two atronachs or reanimated zombies
Elemental Potency (1) Conjured Atronachs level with the caster up to level 35
Elemental Potency (2) Conjured Atronachs level with the caster up to level 40
Elemental Potency (3) Conjured Atronachs level with the caster up to level 45
Summoner Summons and raised bodies last twice as long and can be cast twice as far away
Notes

Cloak spells don't dispel summons anymore

Conjure Dremora Warlock (new spell) lasts 60 seconds

Conjure Potent Storm Atronach now works as intended

Conjure type spells cannot be absorbed by the player or NPC anymore

Dead Thrall is now one-handed, have a short casting time and works on anything just like any other Reanimate type spells

Dual casting Reanimate type spells will now affect magnitude to allow for higher level raised bodies

Higher tier Reanimate staff sold by the custom merchant

New Bound type spells for dagger, greatsword, mace, pickaxe, war axe, warhammer and woodcutter's axe sold by the custom merchant

Released bodies from Reanimate type spells will turn to ashes if the caster doesn't have the Grave Bound perk

Staves are now as powerful as their spell counter part

Destruction

Novice Cast Novice level Destruction spells for half magicka. The damage of all Destruction spells scales with your skills up to 25%
Apprentice Cast Apprentice level Destruction spells for half magicka. The damage of all Destruction spells scales with your skills up to 50%
Adept Cast Adept level Destruction spells for half magicka. The damage of all Destruction spells scales with your skills up to 75%
Expert Cast Expert level Destruction spells for half magicka. The damage of all Destruction spells scales with your skills up to 100%
Master Cast Master level Destruction spells for half magicka. Dual casting Destruction spells requires 15% less magicka and do 15% more damage
Dual Casting Dual casting a Destruction spell overcharges the effects into an even more powerful version
Intense Flames (1) Fire damage has 10% chance to cause targets to flee if their health get below 40%. Novice, wall and cloak spells only have a 2% chance while master spells always trigger this effect
Intense Flames (2) Fire damage has 20% chance to cause targets to flee if their health get below 50%. Novice, wall and cloak spells only have a 4% chance while master spells always trigger this effect
Deep Freeze (1) Frost damage has 10% chance to paralyze targets if their health get below 40%. Novice, wall and cloak spells only have a 2% chance while master spells always trigger this effect
Deep Freeze (2) Frost damage has 20% chance to paralyze targets if their health get below 50%. Novice, wall and cloak spells only have a 4% chance while master spells always trigger this effect
Disintegrate (1) Shock spells has 5% chance to disintegrate targets if their health get below 40%. Novice, wall and cloak spells only have a 1% chance
Disintegrate (2) Shock spells has 10% chance to disintegrate targets if their health get below 50%. Novice, wall and cloak spells only have a 2% chance
Rune Master You can now cast a total of 2 runes and place them five times farther away
Impact (1) Most destruction spells have now 15% chance to stagger an opponent when dual cast. Novice spells only have a 3% chance
Impact (2) Most destruction spells have now 30% chance to stagger an opponent when dual cast. Novice spells only have a 6% chance
Well-timed Spell Destruction spells have a 25% chance of doing 50% more damage if the target is staggered
Notes

Blizzard's duration is increased from 10 to 15 seconds

Casting time of master spells reduced from 3 to 2.5 seconds

Cloak type spells are automatically turned off while sneaking to avoid detection

Cloak type spells now show their real damage in their description, have slightly reduced damage and dual casting doesn't affect them anymore

Fear effect from Intense Flame perk reduced from 15 to 5 seconds

Wall type spells now show the real damage in their description

Enchanting

Enchanter (1) The magnitude of all enchantments scales with your skills up to 25%
Enchanter (2) The magnitude of all enchantments scales with your skills up to 50%
Enchanter (3) The magnitude of all enchantments scales with your skills up to 75%
Elemental Enchanter Elemental enchantments are 15% stronger
Insightful Enchanter Skill enchantments are 15% stronger
Corpus Enchanter Health, magicka, and stamina enchantments are 15% stronger
Extra Effect (1) Can put two enchantments on the same item
Extra Effect (2) Can put three enchantments on the same item
Soul Squeezer Soul gems provide extra magicka for recharging
Soul Siphon (1) Death blows to creatures, but not people, trap 5% of the victim's soul, recharging the weapon
Soul Siphon (2) Death blows trap 10% of the victim's soul, recharging the weapon
Enchanter Focus The first time a staff cast a spell after being equipped, it creates a link with the caster. When the link is created, it remembers the charge state of the staff and will slowly regenerate the staff's charge back to that "remembered" state. Unequipping the staff will sever the link and stop this effect
Weave Focus Holding a staff grants you a 25% magicka regeneration bonus and an extra 50 magicka
Defensive Focus Holding a staff grants you a 15% resistance bonus to magicka, fire, frost and shock
Atronach Focus Holding a staff allows you to absorb 15% of the magicka of any spells that hit you
Offensive Focus Holding a staff allows you to "dual cast" spells with your other hand. Dual casting spells this way won't trigger any abilities based on dual casting, but the magnitude, duration and cost will be the same
Notes

All new enchanted items are sold by the custom merchant at The Frozen Heart inn (Winterhold)

Enchantments have been reworked so that with 100 skill and all the perks, you get about the same power as the best items with this enchantment

Fortify skills type of enchantments aren't affected by Restoration skill anymore

Muffle enchantment is now a flat 25% so you can't "cheat" by sneaking in heavy armor

New enchantments allow for greater duration or magnitude depending on the school of magic (Enchantment excluded)

Restrictions on what you can put enchantments have been modified to be more free without giving full permission either

Robes with Skill Cost and Magicka Regen will now give you 20% reduced magicka cost and 125% magicka regen with 100 skill and all perks

Skill Cost enchantments can only be applied on body to avoid a 100% reduction, meaning equipment can only reduce the cost by a maximum of 45%

Slow effect on Frost Damage has been reduced from 3 to 1 second

Illusion

Novice Cast Novice level Illusion spells for half magicka. The magnitude of all Illusion spells scales with your skills up to 25%
Apprentice Cast Apprentice level Illusion spells for half magicka. The magnitude of all Illusion spells scales with your skills up to 50%
Adept Cast Adept level Illusion spells for half magicka. The magnitude of all Illusion spells scales with your skills up to 75%
Expert Cast Expert level Illusion spells for half magicka. The magnitude of all Illusion spells scales with your skills up to 100%
Master Cast Master level Illusion spells for half magicka. Dual casting Illusion spells requires 15% less magicka and is 15% more potent
Dual Casting Dual casting an Illusion spell overcharges the effects into an even more powerful version
Quiet Casting All spells you cast from any school of magic are silent to others
Master Puppeteer The duration of all Illusion spells scales with your skills up to 100%
Master of the Mind Illusion spells work on undead, daedra and automatons
Weave's Link Targets under the influence of rally-type spells have their magical and elemental resistance boosted
Terror Targets under the influence of fear-type spells have 25% chance to be paralyzed for the duration of the spell
Zealot's Fury Targets under the influence of rage-type spells move and attack faster
False Peace Targets under the influence of calm-type spells have their magical and elemental resistance reduced
Dream Feeder You regenerate 1% of your total magicka per second for every target under your influence
Nightmare Your influence spells crush the mind of your enemies making them lose 1% of their total health every second
Phantasmal Killer Enemies under your influence die instantly when their health drops below 15%
Notes

Calm, Fear, Fury and Rally type spells have been reduced in duration to balance the Master Puppeteer perk

Calm, Fear, Fury and Rally type spells can now affect anyone up to level 60 with all the perks and dual casting

Casting time of master spells reduced from 3 to 2.5 seconds and area of effect reduced from 250 to 50 feet

Courage effect added to Call to Arms to match the spells from this type of spells

Higher tier influence staves sold by the custom merchant

Muffle spell is now a flat 25% so you can't "cheat" by sneaking in heavy armor

Staves are now as powerful as their spell counter part

Restoration

Novice Cast Novice level Restoration spells for half magicka. The magnitude of all Restoration spells scales with your skills up to 25%
Apprentice Cast Apprentice level Restoration spells for half magicka. The magnitude of all Restoration spells scales with your skills up to 50%
Adept Cast Adept level Restoration spells for half magicka. The magnitude of all Restoration spells scales with your skills up to 75%
Expert Cast Expert level Restoration spells for half magicka. The magnitude of all Restoration spells scales with your skills up to 100%
Master Cast Master level Restoration spells for half magicka. Dual casting Restoration spells requires 15% less magicka and are 15% more potent
Dual Casting Dual casting a Restoration spell overcharges the effects into an even more powerful version
Ward Deflection Arrows that hit the ward do no damage
Ward Absorb (1) Wards recharge your magicka when hit with spells
Ward Absorb (2) Wards recharge your magicka even more when hit with spells
Ward Bash Melee attackers are staggered when they hit your ward with their weapon
Recovery (1) Magicka regenerates 25% faster
Recovery (2) Magicka regenerates 50% faster
Respite Healing spells also restore Stamina
Necromage All spells are more effective against undead (+15% effect and +30% effect duration)
Avoid Death Once a day, heals 250 points automatically if you fall below 10% health
Notes

Healing Hands, Heal Others and Grand Healing spells now damage undeads

Healing Undead and Necromantic Healing spells now damage living creatures

Higher tier turning staff sold by the custom merchant

Staves are now as powerful as their spell counter part

Archery

Overdraw (1) Damage from bows scales with your skills up to 25%
Overdraw (2) Damage from bows scales with your skills up to 50%
Overdraw (3) Damage from bows scales with your skills up to 75%
Critical Shot (1) 10% chance of a critical hit that does extra damage
Critical Shot (2) 15% chance of a critical hit that does 25% more critical damage
Critical Shot (3) 20% chance of a critical hit that does 50% more critical damage
Hunter's Discipline Recover twice as many arrows from dead bodies
Ranger Able to move faster with a drawn bow
Puncturing Shot (1) Target bleeds for 20 points of damage over 10 seconds
Puncturing Shot (2) Target bleeds for 45 points of damage over 15 seconds
First Draw Bow attacks are guaranteed a critical hit when firing from out of combat
Eagle Eye Pressing Block while aiming will zoom in your view
Steady Hand (1) Zooming in with a bow slows time by 25%
Steady Hand (2) Zooming in with a bow slows time by 50%
Power Shot (1) Arrows stagger all but the largest opponents 15% of the time
Power Shot (2) Arrows stagger all but the largest opponents 30% of the time
Well-timed Shot Bows have a 25% chance of doing 50% more damage if the target is staggered
Quick Shot (1) Can draw a bow 20% faster
Quick Shot (2) Can draw a bow 40% faster
Bullseye 5% chance of dealing massive damage (10x) to a target
Notes

Bullseye: Arrows don't miss your target anymore because of the paralyzing effect making your target fall on the ground before the arrow reach it

Block

Shield Wall (1) Blocking is 10% more effective
Shield Wall (2) Blocking is 20% more effective
Shield Wall (3) Blocking is 30% more effective
Deflect Arrows Arrows that hit the shield do no damage
Respite Stance Regenerate health 50% faster while blocking during combat
Elemental Protection (1) Blocking with a shield reduces incoming fire, frost, and shock damage by 25% of your skills
Elemental Protection (2) Blocking with a shield reduces incoming fire, frost, and shock damage by 50% of your skills
Block Runner Able to move faster with a shield or weapon raised
Defensive Stance 10% chance to reflect melee damage back to the enemy while wearing a shield
Power Bash Able to do a power bash
Deadly Bash Bashing does five times more damage
Disarming Bash Chance to disarm when power bashing
Shield Charge Sprinting with a shield raised knocks down most targets
Quick Reflexes Time slows down if you are blocking during an enemy's power attack
Notes

Block Runner: Can't be used while sneaking

Shield Charge: Can't be used while sneaking

Heavy Armor

Juggernaut (1) Increases armor rating for Heavy Armor by 10%
Juggernaut (2) Increases armor rating for Heavy Armor by 20%
Juggernaut (3) Increases armor rating for Heavy Armor by 30%
Fist of Steel (1) Unarmed attacks with Heavy Armor gauntlets do 1.5 times their armor rating in extra damage
Fist of Steel (2) Unarmed attacks with Heavy Armor gauntlets do 3 times their armor rating in extra damage
Horseman Reduce by 50% the penalty to stamina regeneration rate from wearing a piece of Heavy Armor
Conditioning (1) Heavy Armor weights 25% less. If wearing at least 3 pieces of Heavy Armor, you gain an additional 20 points of Health and Stamina
Conditioning (2) Heavy Armor weights 50% less. If wearing at least 3 pieces of Heavy Armor, you gain an additional 40 points of Health and Stamina
Arcane Defender Reduce by 50% the penalty to spell cost and magicka regeneration rate from wearing a piece of Heavy Armor
Well Fitted 10% Armor bonus if wearing at least 3 pieces of Heavy Armor
Tower of Strength 50% less stagger if wearing at least 3 pieces of Heavy Armor
Matching Set 10% Armor bonus if wearing at least 3 pieces of Heavy Armor from a matched set
Reflect Blows 10% chance to reflect melee damage back to the enemy if wearing at least 3 pieces of Heavy Armor
Notes

For each piece of Heavy Armor you wear, you suffer a 10% penalty to spell cost and magicka regeneration rate. This can be reduced by half with the Arcane Defender perk

For each piece of Heavy Armor you wear, you suffer a 10% penalty to stamina regeneration rate. This can be reduced by half with the Horseman perk

Steed Stone now gives 125 carry weight instead of 100, but you don't benefit from a weightless armor anymore

With 100 skill, all the appropriate perks and enchantments, you will reach about 70% damage reduction without shield and 80% with a shield

One-Handed

Armsman (1) Damage from one-handed weapons scales with your skills up to 25%
Armsman (2) Damage from one-handed weapons scales with your skills up to 50%
Armsman (3) Damage from one-handed weapons scales with your skills up to 75%
Precision Strike (1) Attacks with one-handed weapons have a 10% chance of doing critical damage
Precision Strike (2) Attacks with one-handed weapons have a 15% chance of doing critical damage. Critical damage is also increased by 25%
Precision Strike (3) Attacks with one-handed weapons have a 20% chance of doing critical damage. Critical damage is also increased by 50%
Lacerations (1) Attacks with swords, daggers and axes cause extra bleeding damage while attacks with maces ignore 30% of armor
Lacerations (2) Attacks with swords, daggers and axes cause more bleeding damage while attacks with maces ignore 60% of armor
Swift Strike Dagger attacks made from out of combat are guaranteed a critical hit
Dual Flurry (1) Dual wielding attacks are 20% faster
Dual Flurry (2) Dual wielding attacks are 40% faster
Dual Savagery (1) Dual wielding power attacks do 25% bonus damage
Dual Savagery (2) Dual wielding power attacks do 50% bonus damage
Fighting Stance (1) Power attacks with one-handed weapons cost 15% less stamina
Fighting Stance (2) Power attacks with one-handed weapons cost 30% less stamina
Critical Charge Can do a one-handed power attack while sprinting that does double critical damage
Savage Strike (1) Standing power attacks do 15% bonus damage with a chance to decapitate your enemies
Savage Strike (2) Standing power attacks do 30% bonus damage with a chance to decapitate your enemies
Well-timed Strike One-handed weapons have a 25% chance of doing 50% more damage if the target is staggered
Paralyzing Strike (1) Backwards power attack has a 15% chance to paralyze the target
Paralyzing Strike (2) Backwards power attack has a 30% chance to paralyze the target

Smithing

Basic Smithing Can create a greater variety of basic equipment at forges. Deal 5% more damage against enemies wearing those types of armor
Advanced Smithing Can create advanced equipment at forges. Deal 5% more damage against enemies wearing those types of armor
Master Blacksmith (1) Your knowledge in armor and weapon smithing let you improve them 20% further
Master Blacksmith (2) Your knowledge in armor and weapon smithing let you improve them 40% further
Master Blacksmith (3) Your knowledge in armor and weapon smithing let you improve them 60% further
Arcane Blacksmith You can improve magical weapons and armor
Dwarven Smithing Can create Dwarven equipment at forges. Deal 5% more damage against Dwarven Automatons and enemies wearing Dwarven armors
Elven Smithing Can create Elven equipment at forges. Deal 5% more damage against enemies wearing Elven armors
Orcish Smithing Can create Orcish equipment at forges. Deal 5% more damage against enemies wearing Orcish armors
Glass Smithing Can create Glass equipment at forges. Deal 5% more damage against enemies wearing Glass armors
Ebony Smithing Can create Ebony equipment at forges. Deal 5% more damage against enemies wearing Ebony armors
Daedric Smithing Can create Daedric equipment at forges. Deal 5% more damage against Daedras and enemies wearing Daedric armors
Dragon Smithing Can create Dragon equipment at forges. Deal 5% more damage against Dragons and enemies wearing Dragons armors
Daedric Infusion Infuse Daedra hearts into high-quality minerals or alloys to create heavy equipment just as strong as Daedric, but heavier and less valuable
Dragon Infusion Infuse dragon scales into high-quality minerals or alloys to create light equipment just as strong as Dragonscales, but heavier and less valuable
Notes

The perk tree has been modified for a more natural progression

Two-Handed

Barbarian (1) Damage from two-handed weapons scales with your skills up to 25%
Barbarian (2) Damage from two-handed weapons scales with your skills up to 50%
Barbarian (3) Damage from two-handed weapons scales with your skills up to 75%
Deep Wounds (1) Attacks with two-handed weapons have a 10% chance of doing critical damage
Deep Wounds (2) Attacks with two-handed weapons have a 15% chance of doing critical damage. Critical damage is also increased by 25%
Deep Wounds (3) Attacks with two-handed weapons have a 20% chance of doing critical damage. Critical damage is also increased by 50%
Limbsplitter (1) Attacks with greatswords and battle axes cause extra bleeding damage while attacks with warhammers ignore 30% of armor
Limbsplitter (2) Attacks with greatswords and battle axes cause more bleeding damage while attacks with warhammers ignore 60% of armor
Champion's Stance (1) Power attacks with two-handed weapons cost 15% less stamina
Champion's Stance (2) Power attacks with two-handed weapons cost 30% less stamina
Devastating Blow (1) Standing power attacks do 15% bonus damage with a chance to decapitate your enemies
Devastating Blow (2) Standing power attacks do 30% bonus damage with a chance to decapitate your enemies
Great Critical Charge Can do a two-handed power attack while sprinting that does double critical damage
Well-timed Blow Two-handed weapons have a 25% chance of doing 50% more damage if the target is staggered
Sweep Sideways power attacks with two-handed weapons hit all targets in front of you
Warmaster (1) Backwards power attack has a 15% chance to paralyze the target
Warmaster (2) Backwards power attack has a 30% chance to paralyze the target

Alchemy

Alchemist (1) The magnitude of all potions and poisons you brew scales with your skills up to 25%
Alchemist (2) The magnitude of all potions and poisons you brew scales with your skills up to 50%
Alchemist (3) The magnitude of all potions and poisons you brew scales with your skills up to 75%
Physician (1) Potions you mix that restore Health, Magicka or Stamina are 15% more powerful
Physician (2) Potions you mix that restore Health, Magicka or Stamina are 30% more powerful
Benefactor (1) Potions you mix with beneficial effects have an additional 15% greater magnitude
Benefactor (2) Potions you mix with beneficial effects have an additional 30% greater magnitude
Experimenter (1) Eating an ingredient reveals first two effects
Experimenter (2) Eating an ingredient reveals first three effects
Experimenter (3) Eating an ingredient reveals all its effects
Poisoner (1) Poisons you mix are 15% more effective
Poisoner (2) Poisons you mix are 30% more effective
Concentrated Poison (1) Poisons applied to weapons last for 2 hits
Concentrated Poison (2) Poisons applied to weapons last for 3 hits
Green Thumb Two ingredients are gathered from harvestable ingredient sources
Snake Blood 50% resistance to all poisons
Purity All negative effects are removed from created potions, and all positive effects are removed from created poisons
Notes

Fortify potions don't stack anymore

Most of the alchemy ingredients have seen their magnitude changed to match the potency of existing potions

Some potions have seen their magnitude changed to a more balanced value

Light Armor

Agile Defender (1) Increases armor rating for Light Armor by 7%
Agile Defender (2) Increases armor rating for Light Armor by 14%
Agile Defender (3) Increases armor rating for Light Armor by 21%
Custom Fit 7% Armor bonus if wearing at least 3 pieces of Light Armor
Finesse (1) 10% attack speed bonus if wearing at least 3 pieces of Light Armor
Finesse (2) 20% attack speed bonus if wearing at least 3 pieces of Light Armor
Matching Set 7% Armor bonus if wearing at least 3 pieces of Light Armor from a matched set
Second Skin Reduce by 50% the penalty to stamina regeneration rate from wearing a piece of Light Armor
Unhindered (1) Light Armor weights 25% less. If wearing at least 3 pieces of Light Armor, you gain an additional 10 points of Health and Stamina
Unhindered (2) Light Armor weights 50% less. If wearing at least 3 pieces of Light Armor, you gain an additional 20 points of Health and Stamina
Wind Walker (1) Stamina regenerates 25% faster if wearing at least 3 pieces of Light Armor
Wind Walker (2) Stamina regenerates 50% faster if wearing at least 3 pieces of Light Armor
Arcane Duelist Reduce by 50% the penalty to spell cost and magicka regeneration rate from wearing a piece of Light Armor
Deft Movement 10% chance of avoiding all damage from a melee attack if wearing at least 3 pieces of Light Armor
Notes

For each piece of Light Armor you wear, you suffer a 5% penalty to spell cost and magicka regeneration rate. This can be reduced by half with the Arcane Duelist perk

For each piece of Light Armor you wear, you suffer a 5% penalty to stamina regeneration rate. This can be reduced by half with the Second Skin perk

With 100 skill, all the appropriate perks and enchantments, you will reach about 60% damage reduction without shield and 70% with a shield

Lockpicking

Novice Novice locks are much easier to pick
Apprentice Apprentice and lower level locks are much easier to pick
Adept Adept and lower level locks are much easier to pick
Expert Expert and lower level locks are much easier to pick
Master Master and lower level locks are much easier to pick
Nimble Fingers You no longer suffer a penalty to lockpicking when wearing gauntlets
Quick Hands Able to pick locks without being noticed
Wax Key Automatically gives you a copy of a picked lock's key if it has one. You also gain the ability to forge lockpicks at forges
Treasure Hunter (1) Twice as much chance of finding special treasure
Treasure Hunter (2) Three times as much chance of finding special treasure
Treasure Hunter (3) Four times as much chance of finding special treasure
Golden Touch Find more gold in chests
Marauder (1) +5% damage against targets carrying 5 or more gold
Marauder (2) +10% damage against targets carrying 20 or more gold, +5% damage minimum against any target carrying gold
Locksmith Pick starts close to the lock opening position
Unbreakable Lockpicks never break
Notes

All locks will damage the lockpicks equally, meaning master locks won't break your lockpick like if it was made of glass

Wearing gauntlets will affect your lockpicking effectiveness by 50%. This can be corrected with the Nimble Fingers perk, wearing gloves (clothing) or being bare hands

Reduced the partial areas and sweet spots on locks, meaning lockpicking will be pretty difficult without the perks

Your chance of finding special treasure without the Treasure Hunter perks is half as much as vanilla Skyrim

Pickpocket

Light Fingers (1) Add a pickpocket bonus that scales with your skills up to 25
Light Fingers (2) Add a pickpocket bonus that scales with your skills up to 50
Light Fingers (3) Add a pickpocket bonus that scales with your skills up to 75
Cutpurse (1) Add a pickpocket bonus of 25% when pickpocketing gold
Cutpurse (2) Add a pickpocket bonus of 50% when pickpocketing gold
Night Thief +25% chance to pickpocket if the target is asleep
Purse Snatcher Increases movement speed by 25%
Extra Pockets (1) Carrying capacity is increased by 50
Extra Pockets (2) Carrying capacity is increased by 100
Extra Pockets (3) Carrying capacity is increased by 150
Poisoned Silently harm enemies by placing poisons in their pockets
Keymaster Pickpocketing keys almost always works
Sleight of Hand (1) The penalty to pickpocket from wearing gauntlets is reduced from 50 to 25%
Sleight of Hand (2) You no longer suffer a penalty to pickpocket from wearing gauntlets
Misdirection Can pickpocket equipped weapons
Perfect Touch Can pickpocket equipped items
Notes

Doubles the weight multiplier for pickpocket difficulty because grabbing something heavy should be difficult

Wearing gauntlets will affect your pickpocket effectiveness by 50%. This can be corrected with the Sleight Of Hand perks, wearing gloves (clothing) or being bare hands

The maximum chance for pickpocket has been increased from 90% to 100%

Sneak

Stealth (1) You are 10% harder to detect when sneaking
Stealth (2) You are 20% harder to detect when sneaking
Stealth (3) You are 30% harder to detect when sneaking
Assassin's Blade (1) Sneak attacks with daggers now multiply damage by 7.5
Assassin's Blade (2) Sneak attacks with daggers now multiply damage by 15
Backstab (1) Sneak attacks with one-handed weapons now multiply damage by 4.5
Backstab (2) Sneak attacks with one-handed weapons now multiply damage by 6
Deadly Aim (1) Sneak attacks with bows now multiply damage by 3
Deadly Aim (2) Sneak attacks with bows now multiply damage by 4
Brutal Shadows (1) Sneak attacks with two-handed weapons now multiply damage by 3
Brutal Shadows (2) Sneak attacks with two-handed weapons now multiply damage by 4
Heart Seeker Sneak attacks have a 10% chance to deal massive damage (100x) on any living creature
Muffled Movement (1) Noise from armor is reduced by 25%. Each piece of Heavy Armor reduces this effect by 5%, up to a 20% penalty
Muffled Movement (2) Noise from armor is reduced by 50%. Each piece of Heavy Armor reduces this effect by 5%, up to a 20% penalty
Light Foot You won't trigger pressure plates
Silent Roll Sprinting while sneaking executes a silent forward roll
Shadow's Embrace (1) Reduce the relative effect that light has on detection by 25%
Shadow's Embrace (2) Reduce the relative effect that light has on detection by 50%
Chameleon You are 15% harder to detect when sneaking and completely still
Shadow Warrior Crouching stops combat for a moment and forces distant opponents to search for a target
Notes

Crime reporting radius for guards and citizens has been reduced to a more realistic distance

Detection times have been significantly increased. The detection AI of NPCs should now appear more natural, and NPCs will continue searching for you much longer, especially if they've been attacked

Detection view cone for NPCs has been narrowed to 165 degrees

Once alerted, an NPC's perception will actually increase and they will become much more aware of any small sounds or movements, so they'll have a better chance of actually finding you, especially if your character still has a low sneak skill

Shadow Warrior: Effect cannot be absorbed anymore

Speech

Haggling (1) Buying and selling prices are 10% better
Haggling (2) Buying and selling prices are 20% better
Haggling (3) Buying and selling prices are 30% better
Orator Your talents as orator allows you to persuade, intimidate or bribe to achieve your goals
Merchant Can sell any type of item to any kind of merchant
Investor Can invest 500 gold with a shopkeeper to increase his available gold permanently
Fence Can barter stolen goods with any merchant you have invested in
Master Trader Every merchant in the world gains 1000 gold for bartering
Talos' Touch (1) Reduce time between shouts by 10%
Talos' Touch (2) Reduce time between shouts by 20%
Talos' Touch (3) Reduce time between shouts by 30%
Thu'um's Serenity (1) Most of your shouts last 20% longer
Thu'um's Serenity (2) Most of your shouts last 40% longer
Thu'um's Serenity (3) Most of your shouts last 60% longer
Thu'um's Fury (1) Most of your shouts are 20% more powerful
Thu'um's Fury (2) Most of your shouts are 40% more powerful
Thu'um's Fury (3) Most of your shouts are 60% more powerful
Notes

Bartering is now more dependent on speech skills

Cooldowns on shouts have been reworked entirely so you can actually use them and be efficient

Duration and magnitude of shouts have been reworked entirely so having shout perks will yield more benefits than vanilla Skyrim while being weaker if you don't invest at all in those perks

Shouts aren't affected by any magic perk anymore

Shouts give experience proportional to their cooldown, meaning a small cooldown gives less experience and a big cooldown gives more

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Installation
Requirements

Latest version of Skyrim (Original or Special Edition)

Optional
  • Dawngaurd
  • Dragonborn
  • Heartfire
Install (auto)

For an automatic install without risk of errors, I suggest you use the NexusModManager. Simply select the DLC you use, if any, click "Next" and select the skill trees you want to install.

Install (manual)

For a manual install, extract the files from this mod and copy them to the appropriate folders. The important thing to remember is that each ESP is complete by itself, meaning you only need 1 ESP perk skill.

If you don't have any DLC, you should remove all files with suffixes (_DB, _DBDG, _DBDGHF, _DBHF, _DG, _DGHF, _HF).

If you use one or more DLCs, it's a bit more complicated as you need to keep the ones that applies to your situation. Each DLC has a suffix associated with it (DG: Dawnguard, DB: Dragonborn, HF: Heartfires) and you need to eliminate the ESPs you can't use by keeping the only file that match the right suffixes. For any combination of DLCs, there is only 1 ESP possible. If a skill doesn't have any ESP with the suffix for your DLC, that means the DLC has no impact on it and thus don't need to be part of the suffix for that skill.

When all is said and done, I suggest you remove the suffixes from the ESPs you install, meaning that TTR_Skill_Overhaul_Sneak_DB.esp would become TTR_Skill_Overhaul_Sneak.esp. This will ensure a smoother upgrade to newer versions.

Built-in install/reset/uninstall quest

There's a built-in quest to manage installation, reset and uninstallation of each module (ESP and ESM).

The first time you load your game, the install phase will automatically start after 5 seconds. Then, the reset phase will begin and each skill tree will be reset, giving you back all your perk points.

This will happen only once and it's necessary to have all the right settings. If a new version need some initializations, it will automatically reset only the required skill trees when you load your game the first time after an update.

If you want to manually reset a module to get back your perk points, open the console and type SetStage TTR_Reset_Module 50. Simply replace Module with the module you want to reset (Alteration, Archery, etc.). This can be done as many time as you want and you can find all the required commands in the TTR_Reset_Module.txt file included in this mod.

As a precaution while a module installs/resets itself, it would be wise to wait until the messages stops before doing anything.

The uninstall quest will be detailed further down.

The problem with Legendary skills and Dragonborn's Reset Perks option

Unfortunately, legendary skills and Dragonborn's reset perks option don't reset everything correctly, even for the vanilla perks. You get back all your perk points, but some things aren't reset like your higher chance to find special treasure with Treasure Hunter. This means that after picking Tresure Hunter and use any of those 2 options to get back your perk points, you don't have to invest in this perk again to benefit from it... That's one of the reason why I included a built-in reset quest. Unfortunately, I couldn't reset everything either, but I take care of much more things than those 2 options do on their own.

To force a clean reset after using legendary skills or Dragonborn's reset perks, simply save and reload your game. The reset quest will automatically start after 5 seconds, even if you used quick save/load functionality. If you don't want to save/reload, simply launch the reset manually with the console.

Uninstall

To remove all traces of this mod from your save game (even the scripts), load your game and open the console. The command to launch the built-in uninstall quest is the same as with the reset quest, but you will use a stage of 100 instead of 50: SetStage TTR_Reset_Module 100.

Do not forget to uninstall the ESM module, it's very important.

When you're done, save your game in a new slot, quick saves won't work.

Finally, close your game and use the uninstall function of the NexusModManager or manually delete all the files of this mod. Be sure you're not in The Frozen Heart inn (Winterhold) when doing so because there's a custom merchant there.

If you change your mind after uninstalling my mod, you can re-install it following the "install" section and then launching the built-in install quest. While the reset quest used stage 50 and the uninstall quest used stage 100, the install quest use stage 0: SetStage TTR_Reset_Module 0.

If for any reason you have a problem after uninstalling this mod, try to install the ESM module only and this should solve the problem. I'm pretty confident this won't be necessary.

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FAQ
Compatibility

Obviously, this mod will conflict with other perk mods. Fortunately, this mod is modular so you can decide which modules you want

Ace - Combat Skills there's a weapon speed fix included in the Melee module that will conflict with my mod. To disable ACE's weapon speed fix, simply open the console and type set WeaponSpeedBaseFix to 0

Do you use scripts?

There seems to be a lot of FUD about scripts so let me explain a couple things. Scripts are part of the game, without them vanilla Skyrim wouldn't work at all. All vendors and trainers are purely scripted. Most of the quests wouldn't work without scripts and there must be countless other scripted things in that game I never thought about.

Scripts aren't inherently bad, inexperienced mod authors are. Because mod authors used badly explained functions in the past, which is the Creation Kit wiki's fault, scripts have been pointed as the cause for all the problems in the world... Like most things in life, clueless people will mess things up, but those that do know how to work with them can do wonders. As a professional programmer myself, I make sure to the best of my knowledge that all my scripts won't cause you any trouble. I also make sure they are upgradable and can be stopped at anytime.

With that said, yes there are scripts in my mod. In fact, the game is made in a way where the barter menu is always called by script so I kinda had no choice. Those scripts cannot mess your game and are extremely fast to execute. I also packaged the sources in case you want to look at them and decide for yourself. Stop worrying your world's gonna implode and enjoy the mod.

Any future plans?

I'll fix problems (if any), offer support and answer questions when needed.

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Credits

I would like to thank all the mod authors out there for their work, they have inspired me countless times.

I would extend a special thanks to:

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Download

TTRSO is available on Nexusmods.com